Sand queen
By: Helen Benedict
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9781569479667
Subjects: Women soldiers; Americans; Iraq War, 2003-; Fiction
Description: Nineteen-year-old Kate Brady's vision of bringing honor to her family and democracy to the Middle East is tarnished when she joins the Army only to be assigned to a forgotten corner of the Iraq desert in 2003 as a prison guard, but she become acquainted with Naema Jassim, an Iraqi medical student whose father and brother are detainees, and through their parallel struggles to survive and hold tight to the people they love, the young women have a profound affect on each other's lives.